Two Ball State University professors will push technological boundaries today when they participate in a live multimedia broadcast with two performers at the University of Iowa.
John Fillwalk, professor of electronic art, and Keith Kothman, director of music technology, will partake in the three-part broadcast at 9 a.m. in the Music Instruction Building, Room 216. The performance is free and open to the public.
Fillwalk said he and Kothman worked with professors at the University of Iowa and the University of Southampton in the U.K. since early spring, but work on the production took about two months.
"It's been a long hull," Fillwalk said. "The organization of pieces really took the most amount of time."
Two performers from the University of Southampton, including Herman Rapaport, the man who thought of the project, will not participate because of a fire that destroyed a laboratory for their school of Electronics and Computer Science last weekend.
Ball State and the University of Iowa will participate in the project today, and Southampton will join the collaboration again in the future, Fillwalk said.
The performance is part of a series titled "Hypothetical Universities."
The first part of the presentation will feature three segments of theatrical, musical and artistic interpretation by the Iowa and Ball State performers. Fillwalk and Kothman will use pre-recorded and live features for the project.
"In my mind, what I'm trying to do is be open-minded," Kothman said. "I'm doing things that will give me freedom during the performance."
The second part will focus on interpretation of the pieces and a look at the bigger picture. Kevin Klinger, an associate professor of architecture, will be one of the respondents in the second half of the presentation. The Free University of Copenhagen in Denmark and the University of Portsmouth in the U.K. will also participate in the response.
"The 'Hypothetical Universities' project is significant in that it addresses fundamental questions inspired by a real-time connected performance and simultaneous conference, but also as it uses the connected digital medium to facilitate this exchange," Klinger said.
The group will be using Polycom, a video-conferencing system, to broadcast the performance.
"We're really trying to push the technology in ways they weren't intended to be used," Fillwalk said.
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